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Think Tank XII
The Way Forward: Event Management Education and the Fu...
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3791 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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The 2011 BESTEN Think Tank XI highlighted a number of issues and themes related to education and learning for sustainable tourism. The themes addressed issues such as learning tools for sustainability, sustainability courses and curricula an...
Author: Olga Junek, Leonie Lockstone-Binney & Martin Robertson
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Understanding Tourism Flows and Patterns: A Case Study...
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4192 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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This paper reports on the outcomes of two collaborative research projects, conducted in conjunction with destination management authorities. The projects used GPS tracking devices to find out how various kinds of visitors moved around two Au...
Author: Deborah Edwards & Tony Griffin
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Controlling and Influencing Visitor Flow as a Basis fo...
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4938 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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Sustainable tourism at a destination is dependent on the maintenance and good management of its attractive assets. In non-urban areas, the assets will primarily be geological, natural and/or cultural, frequently of a sensitive nature, liable...
Author: David Ward-Perkins & Frédéric Dimanche
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Opportunities and Obstacles for Sustainable Tourism Mo...
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5952 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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Cross border destination management is characterized by some extra challenges: national, district or county interests, different administrative structures, a high impact of politics and policies, inequality of tourism infrastructures, power ...
Author: Tatjana Thimm
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Micro-Mobility Patterns and Service Blueprints as Foun...
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7954 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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This paper proposes the use of micro-mobility patterns and service blueprints in visitor management planning. Using a nature-based conservation area and visitor attraction in Wellington, New Zealand, as a case study, micro-mobility patterns ...
Author: Julia Albrecht
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Blurred Boundaries: The Implications of New Tourism Mo...
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10809 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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“Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds.” (Larsen, 2008, p. 27). A...
Author: Laurie Murphy, Gianna Moscardo, Nancy McGehee & Elena Konovalov
Year: 2012
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Think Tank XII
Integrated Planning of Sustainable Tourism and Mobilit...
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35445 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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Emerging tourist market trends are pushing destinations to consider mobility an essential strategic component of sustainable tourism planning. Destination Management needs to use tourism mobility analysis systematically if it wants to seize ...
Author: Anna Scuttari, Maria Della Lucia & Umberto Martini
Year: 2012
OPA: 2012 Runner Up
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Think Tank XII
The Impact of Volcanic Ash Clouds in 2010 and 2011 on ...
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40825 | Nov 06, 2013 |
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Few recent events which disrupted global tourism and especially tourism mobility, match the impact of the volcanic ash clouds generated from the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 and the Chilean volcano Puyehue in 20...
Author: David Beirman
Year: 2012
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